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Sintiendo que el campo de batalla...
Ser mujer, periodista, tener poco más de 20 años y estar asignada a la sección de sucesos en la ciudad más grande del mundo es toda una aventura. Pero si además tienes tu propia campaña en contra de la corrupción policiaca y los abusos del poder, entonces las cosas se ponen más difíciles. Otra aventura de Olga Lavanderos.
- GenresFiction
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II
192 books586 followersPaco Ignacio Taibo II, birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Mahojo, is a popular Mexican writer and novelist. He is the son of the late journalist Paco Ignacio Taibo I.
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April 26, 2020
tradotto demmerda, temo. ma si vede anche che lo ha scritto nei ritagli di tempo.
January 9, 2011
PIT dos is famous for his crime novels, and this is the first I have read. Unlike what I was expecting, a police or crime novel in the ol´familiar style, I was wound into a suspenseful story where the protangonista is living a super everyday life, and the suspense is not just about the crime, which in fact, already happens and does not repeat, but about everyone and everything else around her. A familiar feeling for me in Mexico.
As someone who studied some journalism, PIT II's centering around journalism ¨the fourth power¨and its world also made the book more interesting. PIT II created in Olguita a likable and well.down character, and I am looking forward to meeting her in Olga Forever (apparently this is a sequel, but it was not noticable, thankfully) after reading a completely different PIT. Ah, and the ending doesn't disappoint.
Oh, apart from all that jazz, the thing I liked most was the very Mexican Spanish. Taibo throws some great insults in there, very well done. Title translates to Percieving the Battlefield, which it would have been nice to percieve during the reading. But that was my fault.
This is a solid, almost four, three. Leaving the title with an elipse turned me off some, and it's not excellent, but an author I would recommend for fun reading. He does serious stuff, too, but I haven't read to recommend yet. This book is only available in Spanish so pick one of his many others.
Here, Olga waxes phanatic about journalism. Perdon por no interpretar.
Es la última pinche barrera que nos impide caer en la barbarie. Sin periodismo, sin circulación de información, todos levantaríamos la mano cuando el big brother lo dijera. Es la voz de los mudos y el oído extra que Dios le dio a los sordos. Es el único pinche oficio que aún vale la pena en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Es el equivalente moderno de la piratería ética, el aliento de las rebeliones de los esclavos. Es el único puñetero trabajo divertido que aún puede practicarse.
As someone who studied some journalism, PIT II's centering around journalism ¨the fourth power¨and its world also made the book more interesting. PIT II created in Olguita a likable and well.down character, and I am looking forward to meeting her in Olga Forever (apparently this is a sequel, but it was not noticable, thankfully) after reading a completely different PIT. Ah, and the ending doesn't disappoint.
Oh, apart from all that jazz, the thing I liked most was the very Mexican Spanish. Taibo throws some great insults in there, very well done. Title translates to Percieving the Battlefield, which it would have been nice to percieve during the reading. But that was my fault.
This is a solid, almost four, three. Leaving the title with an elipse turned me off some, and it's not excellent, but an author I would recommend for fun reading. He does serious stuff, too, but I haven't read to recommend yet. This book is only available in Spanish so pick one of his many others.
Here, Olga waxes phanatic about journalism. Perdon por no interpretar.
Es la última pinche barrera que nos impide caer en la barbarie. Sin periodismo, sin circulación de información, todos levantaríamos la mano cuando el big brother lo dijera. Es la voz de los mudos y el oído extra que Dios le dio a los sordos. Es el único pinche oficio que aún vale la pena en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Es el equivalente moderno de la piratería ética, el aliento de las rebeliones de los esclavos. Es el único puñetero trabajo divertido que aún puede practicarse.
March 25, 2017
Acabo de reeler este libro y lo disfruté mucho. Una narrativa de lo más irreverente y divertida con un ritmo trepidante. Homenaje chilango a una ciudad apasionante. Los innumerables detalles geográficos y características locales hacen de este recorrido trepidante por la ciudad siguiendo a Olga, un evento memorable. Bien por Paco Ignacio Taibo II, chilango orgulloso de su chilanguez que la comparte de este modo.
December 6, 2020
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December 21, 2015
Una joven reportera como protagonista; una época –"de la peste"– crucial en la modernidad defeña: 1986, posterremoto. El asesinato de cinco burguesillos "bere-nice", cocainómanos descuartizados y arrojados al río... y de postre, una jerga sabrosa, barriobajera, alburerona y que hace que la trama fluya ágilmente.
Bastante disfrutable.
Bastante disfrutable.
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